Category: Russia

Click here for YouTube video. GENEVA, September 21, 2018 — Russian justice minister Alexander Konovalov was confronted in a UN debate today by one of his country’s most prominent dissidents. Pro-democracy activist, author and filmmaker Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was twice poisoned and nearly killed in …

Click here for YouTube This is fantastic. @HillelNeuer speaking truth to power by bravely calling out the absurdity of countries like Russia, China and Venezuela sitting on the UN Human Rights Council. Please take 2 minutes to watch this clip https://t.co/l0ycB4fFR4 — Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) August 4, …

The Bitkov family A little known U.N. agency created to fight government corruption in Guatemala, itself appears to have been corrupted by Russia in its vendetta against Igor, Irina and Anastasia Bitkov, who escaped Russia for Guatemala in 2008 fearing for their lives after having dared to defy Putin. What is …

GENEVA, April 16, 2018 – A Swiss-based watchdog organization today called on the world body not to elect a “rogues’ gallery of the world’s worst human rights abusers” to the 19-nation UN committee that accredits human rights organizations, including candidate countries Iran, Russia, …

GENEVA, Sept. 14, 2017 – After an investigator of the U.N. human rights council presented a report slamming the U.S. and EU for imposing sanctions on Russia, which he said amounted to “unilateral coercive measures,” a Geneva-based watchdog group took the floor to challenge the Special Rapporteur, …

Rosa Maria Paya – Daughter of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, the victim of assassination by Cuban regime “Because of the dictatorship, the whole population has been forced into poverty and live without the most basic human rights.” “The regime’s intelligence apparatus and the powerful …

Dissidents & Activists Join UN Watch for High Profile Events at Canadian Parliament, UN Headquarters, New York University Canadian Parliament: All-party coalition of MPs stood with dissidents and families of political prisoners as former justice minister Irwin Cotler and UN Watch Executive Director Hillel …

National Post: ‘Shining a light on the hypocrisy’: Canada urged to vote against human rights abusers (also featured in Ottawa Citizen and Montreal Gazette) Globe and Mail: Canada should refuse to vote human-rights abusers to UN council, MP alliance says CTV: Vote against including China in UN Human Rights …

GENEVA, July 4—In extraordinary scenes Friday, Choi Kyong-lim — the Korean Ambassador currently serving as the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council — suspended the 32nd Session of the Council after a group of countries led by Russia dragged its feet over the appointment of the new …